Chapter 636: Chapter 257: The Dragonborn’s True Form, A Single Spark Starts a Prairie Fire

ICE!

The ultimate, absolute, eternal ice that represents the end of all things!

Lin Ye’s slitted pupils constricted sharply.

A heart-stopping palpitation, born from the most primal of instincts, seized his heart!

High in the sky, the countless falling fire meteors seemed to freeze as if someone had pressed pause. Then, in the span of a thousandth of a second, all their flames were extinguished!

The next moment.

CRACK—

With Xia Lianxue at its center, an invisible wave of absolute zero instantly radiated outward in a circle!

Wherever it passed, space seemed to congeal and time to freeze!

Everything within a radius of several hundred kilometers was completely flash-frozen in that instant!

Lin Ye didn’t even have time to react.

The chill didn’t invade from the outside. Instead, it materialized out of thin air within every cell, every atom of his body!

Almost instantly, his jet-black dragon scales, capable of withstanding thousands of attacks, were frozen solid, along with the raging dragon’s blood in his veins.

Everything was perpetually frozen in that moment.

He became a lifelike ice sculpture.

But this was only the beginning.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

With him at the core, layer after layer of ten-thousand-year-old ice spread and stacked, growing with frenzied speed!

In the blink of an eye, a massive, thousand-meter-tall pillar of crystalline blue ice, radiating an aura of death and annihilation, shot up from the ground, sealing Lin Ye deep within its core!

High in the air, Xia Lianxue slowly opened her eyes.

Her lips were blue and purple, her face was covered in a fine layer of frost, and her aura was so faint it seemed it could be extinguished at any moment.

But her eyes held a look of relieved, almost morbid satisfaction.

’She had won.’

’To beat him, she had sacrificed everything she was proud of.’

’But as long as she could win...’

’As long as she could completely crush this nightmare that weighed on her heart...’

’...it was all worth it!’

...

The conference room fell deathly silent.

The power to instantly freeze everything for miles around was truly terrifying.

Even a genuine Celestial Human Realm expert, if caught off guard by such a rule-level technique, would undoubtedly be trapped for a short time.

"It’s over."

"In the end, she won."

Yi Jiugao took a deep breath, his tone complex.

This feeling of giving your all, of burning everything you have, just to catch up to that unattainable goal and finally surpass it...

He understood.

Who among them hadn’t once been a peerless genius?

But reality had smoothed away their sharp edges.

They understood even better that there was always a higher mountain.

They were not the absolute summit that stood above all others.

In a sense, most geniuses, like Xia Lianxue, were chasers.

And now, this chaser had caught up to the one she had been pursuing all this time.

So, they felt a sense of empathy.

Fortunately, the outcome was good. She had proven herself.

Just as all the examiners, including Zhu Mingyi, who had the most faith in Lin Ye, thought the battle’s outcome was set in stone, the silent Vice Principal Hou Guanghe suddenly sat bolt upright, his eyes glued to the center of the screen.

Or rather, at the figure at the very core of the thousand-meter ice pillar that symbolized death and finality.

There...

A faint, almost imperceptible crimson light was flickering.

That crimson glimmer...

...was like the last flicker of a candle in the wind, yet as stubborn as a spark that could set a prairie ablaze!

At that moment, everyone realized something was wrong.

No elimination notice had come from the terminal!

The battle... wasn’t over yet!

On the battlefield, Xia Lianxue was gasping for air. A profound weakness washed over her like a tide, but her Spirit was in a state of morbid excitement.

But when she saw the crimson glow at the core of the ice pillar, that excitement was instantly replaced by boundless terror.

"Stop struggling!"

She shrieked, her voice sharp and distorted with fear.

"You lost!!"

"You’ve already lost!!"

Xia Lianxue clenched her fists, becoming completely hysterical as she watched the light in the pillar, which not only refused to die but grew ever brighter!

’She was scared!’

’She was truly terrified!’

’This was everything she had!’

’This was the peak of her power, a once-in-a-lifetime moment she had traded her future for!’

After this battle, Xia Lianxue didn’t even know if she could ever regain the trust and affinity of the other elements.

But now...

...she had no more trump cards to play!

...

「Elemental Domain, the Sea of Chaos.」

Xia Lianxue’s consciousness looked up from the deep blue that represented the Ice Origin.

In the next moment, however, her calm pupils, formed from pure ice elements, constricted abruptly.

The Sea of Chaos, once eternally silent, now rippled without warning.

Then, a gleam, a wisp, a sheet... endless crimson surged madly upward from the depths of the boundless elemental sea!

It was the purest, most ancient, and most frenzied Fire Origin in all of existence!

They were stirring, in Resonance, and cheering, as if answering the call of some supreme, unparalleled existence!

VMMMM—!

In an instant, all the Fire Elements that had surfaced vanished from this place of origin.

Xia Lianxue knew where they had gone.

They had gone to the real world!

To... that place!

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